Sarny

Publisher: Random House, Inc.

Author: Gary Paulsen

$6.47

Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn, is now a
young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War,
a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a
panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for
change, until her last days in the 1930s.

Sarny, the young slave girl who learned to read in Nightjohn, is now a
young widow. She flees the plantation in the last days of the Civil War,
a free woman in search of her sold-away children. Sarny's story gives a
panoramic view of America in a time of tragedy, trial, and hoped-for
change, until her last days in the 1930s.

Paperback, ISBN 9780440219736

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